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Asher did much better than Lorelai at smiling which is a first. The sun was just too bright for her precious little eyes.

Why are toddlers so funny?

Asher's feelings about God

This video is so funny! We ask Asher three questions in it: Where's God?, Who did God send?, and Who does God love? On the "Who did God send?" question he's trying to do sign language for Jesus, but he only ever does half of it. Anyway, the funny part of the video is at the end. When we ask him "Who does God love?" he never answers because he wants us to answer. He likes the dramatic effect, I think. :) Just watch, and enjoy!

Asher changes a diaper

The other day Asher got this stuffed bear we have and started pulling the wipes out one-by-one and wiping the bear's bottom with them. He seriously went through a ton of them before we saw what he was doing. He then grabbed a diaper (Jon had gotten it out to change Asher's diaper earlier, but ended up not using it) and started trying to put it on the bear. Of course you never have a camera when you really want it. However, today we got a close reenactment. He seemed to want to do more wiping than anything, though.

Please excuse Lorelai getting a tad bit fussy towards the end. It was definitely bed time for both of them, but we had to get this on video while we could. And that laugh of Asher's! Well, you'll just have to hear it. We laugh everytime he does it.

Things are back to normal......for a bit

I haven't made any new posts lately because Jon has been out of town so I've obviously been very busy. He left last Friday for youth camp in Panama City and didn't come home until yesterday (Tuesday). We were SO glad to have him back. We missed him so much! I didn't really get to take any new pictures while he was gone because I just wasn't thinking about it, and the camera was never near when I did, but I did take a few on my iPhone so I'll at least share those.

As I said we're so glad to have Jon back, but he's leaving us again for a week to go on a mission trip to San Diego. I'm going to be so glad when these trips are completely over. It's kind of hard to enjoy him being home now when I know he's leaving again soon. Anyway, that's all for now. I'll update more later, but I just wanted to get in a quick post on what we've been doing.

Family Pictures

This past Saturday we had a photographer (Nong Cavender) take pictures of the family. We had such a good time doing it, and Nong did a great job with the kids. If only they had of been able to get a nap in before the pictures. Anyway, she put a few pictures of the session up for a "sneak peek" so I thought I'd share. She'll have a CD of the edited pictures for me in the next couple of weeks so until then these will have to do!

Baby pool fun!

Asher really LOVES playing in the pool and even just his baby pool. As soon as we got home from church today he ran to the back door wanting to go outside so he could get in the pool. However, it was nap time so he had to wait until he woke up. Mean mommy and daddy. Here are some pictures of him enjoying his water time. Please excuse him being in just his swim diaper. He was too grumpy to put on much else.

This was Asher at dinner tonight. He kept putting his fork on top of his head.

Long day!

Today has been a really busy and long day for us. We got up this morning to get ready for lunch with some friends from out of town. We met them at this BBQ place here. We really enjoyed visiting with them, but unfortunately we didn't get to visit long since we had other things to do. Here are some pictures from our lunch:

From there we went to this area here called Vickery Village. We met a photographer there to have pictures done. It is so incredibly gorgeous out there! The houses are huge (huge doesn't even cover it really), and it has beautiful spots for taking pictures. I'm crossing my fingers that we got some great ones because it was 1 o'clock which is normally nap time for both of the kids. Next week she's going to have a sneak peek, but the whole session won't actually be ready for 2-3 weeks. Here was Asher in the car before our pictures:

When we got home (after the kids took naps) we filled up our baby pool in the backyard rather than go to the neighborhood pool. Asher had a blast in it! He loved playing with the hose while we filled it up. We grilled cheeseburgers afterwards and took our baths to get ready for bed! Well, before his bath Asher insisted that he wear Lorelai's hairbows, and he didn't just want one in his hair. 

That's about it for the day! We have finally finished VBS, and we had a blast! I videotaped Asher's performance during the closing ceremony, but we need to get the right adapter for it to get the video on my Mac. Apparently the one we have only works for a PC. When I do, though, I'll be sure to upload it for you!

Here's a few sweet photos to end things from the past week.

Lorelai loves Asher's Hot Wheels as much as he does:

Pictures from VBS. In the first one Asher really needed a haircut. Badly. In the second and third one he was performing the songs with the other kids with his new haircut!

VBS and other fun things this week

This is going to be a pretty busy week for us. Last night was the first night of Vacation Bible School, and Asher is actually in a class this year. He's in the 2 year old class, but that class wasn't open to the public - just 2 year olds whose parents are working VBS. He has had so much fun so far! Last night was the only night they weren't going to be providing dinner so I went to get Asher from his class to eat something (I was going to take him back afterwards), but he decided he was having such a good time he didn't care that much about eating. He wanted to go eat snack with his friends instead. They stay in their room for dinner and crafts, but they go to the choir room for music. I peeked in last night to watch him in there last night, and on the last night (Friday) he'll actually be up on stage doing a song. Needless to say we'll be videotaping and taking tons of pictures. I'm really excited to see this! 

Jon is doing VBS with the middle school youth, and we originally only had 6 registered, but by the start of everything there were about 20 people there (including Jon, a parent helping, and me)! Obviously this is a great thing, but it has changed plans a bit. We were going to leave the church to do some activities, but there are too many kids now and not enough vehicles. So I'm not sure what the plan will be for the youth this week.  Anyway, throughout the week and especially at the end of it I'll be sure to post pictures so you can see what we've been doing all week.

In other news this is a video I forgot to upload so here it is. It's of Lorelai learning to crawl. She just drags herself around right now, but she gets where she wants to go really quickly.